Mercer v. Parsons

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wi-iite, J.

This is a suit by a wife (who has died since the trial) for the alienation of her husband’s affections by the defendant, who is a widow. The jury found for the plaintiff. The appellant claims there should have been a non-suit or a direction of a verdict for the defendant. We think not.

There was, in our judgment, sufficient evidence to justify a finding by the jury that defendant had wrongfully and 'willfully attempted to alienate the affections of plaintiff’s husband, and had succeeded in so doing, and that it was done without the wife’s…